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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions by APPOINTMENT (2 days)
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Friday, September 11, 2015
12 PM to 8 PM
break 3:30 to 4:30
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Contract
SPT
pending; last season was $371/week
Location
The Undercroft Theatre
900 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20001
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Seeking
Equity actors for the upcoming 2015-16 Season.
see breakdown
Preparation
Please bring a picture and resume stapled together. Do not email resumes.
Please prepare a monologue that shows verbal facility. Shakespeare is not recommended.
AEA members without appointments seen as time permits.
Other Dates
Location Note:
The Undercroft Theatre is on the ground floor of The Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church. Come to the lobby entrance facing Massachusetts Ave, under the main steps facing 9th St.
Other
Do not call the church or use the church office entrances.
Personnel
Artistic Director: Bill Largess
Executive Director: Ann Norton
Director: Laura Giannarelli
Director: Steven Carpenter
· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
email info@stageguild.org (strongly preferred) or call 240-582-0050 M-F 11-6. Please do not call The Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
TINY ISLAND
by Michael Hollinger
Rehearsal starts 9/14
First preview 10/1
Opens 10/3
Closes 10/25
Seeking:
Muriel
Female, late 40s. A woman who has realized the emptiness in her marriage and returns to her estranged family looking for a new start. She has begun hearing voices and will start seeing figures from her past in the play. CAST. Actors will be seen for possible replacements.
Hazel
Female, Early 50s. Muriel's sister who never left the family and who works at their father's movie theatre. Disillusioned and pessimistic, she thinks Muriel is losing her mind. CAST. Actors will be seen for possible replacements.
Mike/Norm
Male, 17-20 Two roles played by one actor, Mike is a young usher at the theatre heading off to college whom Hazel has taken under her wing. Norm is one of Muriel's visions, of her husband as she once saw him, idealistic and kind.
Young Muriel/Brenda
Female, 17-20. two roles played by the same actor. Young Muriel is Muriel's vision of herself in youth, in love with Norm and sharing his idealism. Brenda is Mike's girlfriend, also about to start college and not sure what she wants for the future.
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IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, A LIVE RADIO PLAY
adapted by Joe Landry
Rehearsal starts 10/19
First preview 11/12
Opens 11/14
Closes 12/6, possible extension to 12/20
The play is set in a radio studio in the 40s, with a group of actors playing all the roles from the famous film.
Physical type and age therefore don't really matter, as long as each actor can voice the characters with the needed range.
Seeking:
Freddie Fillmore
Plays the Announcer, Joseph, Potter and many small roles
Jake Laurents
Plays George Bailey
Sally Applewhite
Plays Mary, George's wife
Lana Sherwood
Plays Violet, Mrs hatch, and many small roles
Harry “Jazzbo” Heywoud
Plays Clarence, Bert and many small roles
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BACK TO METHUSELAH: AS FAR AS THOUGHT CAN REACH
by George Bernard Shaw
Rehearsal starts 1/ 4/2016
First preview 1/28
Opens 1/20
Closes 2/21, possible extension to 3/6
This is the third part of a three-year project producing Shaw's visionary cycle of plays. Most of the cast from 2014 and 2015 will return, but several may need to be replaced due to other commitments. All roles are cast without reagrd to the actor's actual age.
seeking:
Man # 1
plays the He-Ancient, an immensely old human who has evolved far beyond ordinary humanity, and Pygmalion, a young scientist
Woman # 1
Plays the She-Ancient, another being who has evolved into a powerful near-immortal, and Chloe, a serious young woman who has begun to grow past youthful follies.
Man # 2
Plays Strephon, a heartsick young lover, and Ozymandias, an automaton
Woman # 2
Plays The Newly-Born, a young girl who is born out of an egg during the play. Naive and curious
Man # 3
Plays Acis, a young man who instructs the Newly-Born on how the world works in 25.000 AD, and Martellus a friend of Arjillax
Woman # 3
Plays Ecrasia, a critical young woman who is outraged at Ajillax's sculpture
Man # 4
Plays Arjillax a sculptor who wants to make art that is true to life whether beautiful or not.
Woman # 4
Plays Cleopatra-Semiramis, an automaton, and Lilith, the progenitor of all humanity
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, CHARLES DICKENS, AND COUNT LEO TOLSTOY: DISCORD
by Scott Carter
Rehearsal starts 3/7
First preview 3/31
Opens 4/2
Closes 4/24, possible extension to 5/8
seeking:
Thomas Jefferson
Male, 40s, tall, courtly and eloquent with a soft Southern accent. Brilliant but unable to reconcile his beliefe with the real world sometime, and skeptical of things he is told.
Charles Dickens
Male, 40s, witty and sardonic, unwilling to accept that life is often unfathomable
Count Leo Tolstoy
Male, 40s-50s, passionate and filled with quirks, both personal and philosophical. Rigid in his very singular beliefs.
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